U+109A8 "𐦨" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ma Unicode Character

U+109A8 "𐦨" Meroitic Cursive Letter Ma is a character from the Meroitic Cursive script, which was used in the ancient Kingdom of Kush, located in what is now Sudan, primarily between the 3rd century BCE and the 5th century CE. This specific glyph represents the consonant sound "ma" and is part of a cursive writing system adapted from Egyptian hieroglyphic scripts for everyday administrative and religious texts. As a letter in the Meroitic alphabet, it reflects the unique linguistic heritage of the Meroitic language, which remains only partially deciphered by modern scholars. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in version 6.1, released in 2012, to support digital encoding and preservation of this historical script.